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FINAL REPORT OF SANTA FE SUMMIT ’97
Preserving Quality And Value In the Managed Care Equation
February, 1998
Dear Colleague,
The American College of Mental Health Administration is
proud to have sponsored SANTA FE SUMMIT 1997, the first in a series of consensus
development activities to be conducted by the College . We believe that ACMHA is
uniquely positioned to provide neutral ground for productive discussion on this
and other topics of interest to the mental health and substance abuse fields.
The document you hold is the summary report of the work
of the SUMMIT and reflects deliberations at the SUMMIT and in ensuing months. We
hope that you will comment on and respond to this document, which was created to
help focus energy and attention on timely, meaningful measurement of quality in
behavioral health services. We found great consensus about the values that must
drive the future, and we found much energy for selecting a reasonable number of
core indicators. The work ahead is to build on this energy and consensus to
tackle the complex methodological issues of measurement, and we trust that this
document can help serve as a foundation for the work to come.
Please take a moment to review the acknowledgments
section at the end of this report. Many, many organizations and individuals have
contributed to this work, and the American College is deeply grateful to them.
We at the College accept responsibility for the language of the final report; we
have tried to accurately reflect the consensus opinions as we understand them.
The discussions have been lively and challenging and the issues are daunting; we
intend to continue to be actively involved in these exciting discussions.
Our starting place in this process was to ensure that
changes in the mental health and substance abuse delivery systems remained
focused first on the values of good care. We hope that this document will be
useful to you and to the field as we realize that vision.
Beverly K. Abbott, MSW , President ACMHA
John A. Morris, MSW, Vice-President ACMHA and SUMMIT ’97 Chair
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